{"id":8608,"date":"2021-07-04T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T21:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2021-07-04T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T21:36:58","slug":"independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthygrinsportfishing.com\/?p=8608","title":{"rendered":"Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"
I went on a couple of morning trips over the Independence Day Weekend. Saturday, I did a fairly\u00a0good job<\/span>\u00a0using up my chum and eels catching sharks. I did mess up and catch a little cobia.<\/div>\n
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Sunday morning, I hit one of VMRC’s artificial reefs and had a limit catch of toadfish. OK, there is no limit but I got a bucket of toads. I used to call those things Southall fish because Charles Southall was so adept at catching them and he passed his skill onto his son, Hunter. I think that I have surpassed the masters. I declare myself as the best toad catcher in all of the Commonwealth. If anyone would like to take my title…please do.<\/div>\n
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I caught a half-dozen tautog, one of which already had a tag in it. I caught a red drum that had part of a gill net embedded in it. I cut that out the best I could before tagging and releasing it. A small cobia swam by the boat and jumped all over the jig that I cast to it. I caught some really small croaker and then there were these sheepshead things.<\/div>\n
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